Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, making Miller a handy target for White House staffers and politicians. Stuart Eizenstat, President Carter's chief domestic affairs adviser, complained that the Reserve's moves on interest rates "aren't ones we have asked for and aren't ones we have applauded." Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, who cast the sole negative vote against Miller's nomination, groused that the federal funds advance was wrong because "the economy is not at a point where restraint is appropriate." Investors have shown no such concern. The born-again stock market...
...amendment was passed, Britain's large American community of about 120,000 civilian, government and military employees and their families has declined by 20,000. One London group of U.S. executives, Tax Equity for Americans Abroad (TEAA), has launched a spirited campaign to mail tea bags to Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, the bill's main backer, after he chastised "jet-setting" Americans abroad and their "mink-swathed" wives. The planners intended this symbolic Washington tea party to be a protest against an unfair tax policy. Complains Robert Worcester, co-chairman of the group: "An awful lot of people...
...heavyweight novices wound up third in a heat that saw the University of Wisconsin victorious, while MIT captured the second spot. The novice lightweights stroked to fourth place in their race...
...Gone forever is the battleship. The last of them, the U.S.S. Wisconsin, was retired in 1958, although the U.S.S. New Jersey was briefly taken out of mothballs ten years later and deployed off the coast of South Viet Nam until December...
Crews from Wisconsin, Cornell and Dartmouth will also be there, but their records suggest that only strange conditions could push them in front of the Crimson...